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Weather: Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 40s.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In: The “Warbirds Over Flagler” fly-in at the Flagler Executive Airport is on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will offer thrilling flybys, historic aircraft displays, live music, and more. The event entrance is off Belle Terre (south of State Road 100) and Fin Way, which is the southeast entrance to the airport.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Gamble Jam: Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session, 2 to 4 p.m. The program is free with park admission! Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach, FL. Call the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086 for more information. The Gamble Jam is a family-friendly event that occurs every second and fourth Saturday of the month. The park hosts this acoustic jam session at one of the pavilions along the river to honor the memory of James Gamble Rogers IV, the Florida folk musician who lost his life in 1991 while trying to rescue a swimmer in the rough surf.
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre,160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, $30 for adults, $15 for students, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. Book here. Violet is a young disfigured woman on a transformative bus journey from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, seeking healing. Winner of Off Broadway’s most prestigious Best Musical award, this compelling narrative with great songs promises an unforgettable theatrical experience.
The Flagler Wellness Expo by the Intuitive Living Institute, a for-profit company in the Hammock, is held at Flagler Palm Coast High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $5 per person. Intuitive provides alternative and holistic health services through what it calls “master energy healers.” The expo will feature numerous local businesses that specialize in fitness, nutrition, acupuncture, crustal and energy healing, yoga and other alternative health fields.
Notably: George Hanns hasn’t lost a step. The former county commissioner–he served 24 years–was known for his wry one-liners, back when government had a sense of humor. That ended for good in Flagler County with the departure of Bob Cuff in 2020 from the Palm Coast City Council. Maybe that’s what Hanns had in mind when he appeared before the council last Tuesday, as all that talk of a building moratorium had everyone fevered up. I’m not exactly sure what Hanns intended to say. But when he was signaled that his time was up, he said: “I’ll just mention to you, people on this council, that next time you have a disagreement with your spouse, you tell them they have three minutes to respond.”
—P.T.
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April 2025
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
In Court: Michael Jennelle Sentencing
In Court: Jayden Jackson Sentencing
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Brian London
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
Lower Manhattan was like the jaw of a shark for the whole of its modern history, with long, toothlike piers jutting out at the end of every east/west street. “Your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs,” Herman Melville wrote of it in Moby-Dick. But then Manhattan gave up its ships and longshoremen and their huge hawser ropes, all of them gone elsewhere by the late 1960s, and with them over the next twenty years went the piers that had given the city a salty brawn it has lacked ever since. I remembered from my cab-driving days what a bacchanalia those piers played host to every summer as they slowly collapsed into the river, but today the whole of the lower island along the Hudson has been scrubbed of protuberances and indentations. There is but one place to land a boat, a snug little harbor for rich yacht people called the North Cove Marina. I had called ahead for permission to come ashore there and the manager, Mike Revier, shot back a note: “North Cove would be happy to provide you a landing in Manhattan. At no charge, of course.”
–From Neil King’s American Ramble (2023) .
Pogo says
@P.T.
A good morning to you too, and thank you.
Early voting starts today — be there.
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Edumacated says
the radical left wants what healthcare, human rights, nature? The radical Nazi right wants your tax money , to install an authoritarian government for more money and to help your enemies, and screw your allies? You voted for it so now bow down to mother Russia. Voter suppression, gerrymandering,and bribery is all it took to end an empire.
Sherry says
Eggs. . .the new Canadian drugs!
CTV News:
In the first two months of 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized fentanyl on 134 occasions, down from 197 seizures in the same time frame in 2024. Meanwhile, CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.
Skibum says
The occupier of our WH was absolutely enthralled with the spurious judicial rulings of federal judge Eileen Cannon, the FL judge assigned to handle the Mar-A-Lago classified documents case. He even went so far as to say that it should be illegal for people to question her judicial rulings! But, of course like is always the case with drumph, he only likes those judges and those judicial rulings that are favorable to him. Every other judge is a so-called “radical, left wing lunatic” like W.S. District Judge Boasberg. Judge Boasberg has a very distinguished judicial record, one that shows he is no liberal. He was initially appointed to the federal bench by President George H. W. Bush. He was the one who ruled against Hillary Clinton in her emails case. There have been an overwhelming number of federal court decisions by various federal courts that have ruled against the president and the extreme actions he has been unilaterally taking in the last couple of months. So I am hopeful that the federal judiciary as a whole is going to continue to stand up for the law and stand up for our U.S. Constitution, both of which are under attack as drumph intensifies he efforts to morph the presidency into his personal kingdom ruling dictatorship.